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A blacksmith, John Deere developed a lightweight plow made of steel that cut quickly and easily. The steel plow, which customers named the “singing plow,” enabled farming to evolve beyond feeding one’s family into a business. Includes Glossary, Fact Page, Bibliography
Lexile
860L
Publication
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (2017), 40 pages
Description
Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that's who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that's who! The life and accomplishments of the blacksmith who invented a steel plow to help till the thick Illinois soil and changed American farming forever.
Awards
Monarch Award (Nominee — 2019)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Nonfiction — 2020)
Star of the North Picture Book Award (Nominee — 2020)
Language
Original language
English
Pages
40
Physical description
40 p.; 11.41 inches
ISBN
1627791299 / 9781627791298
DDC/MDS
338.7 |